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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: It is the unspoken statistic, but it is as real as anything to do with the lingering U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the military, 1,800 American servicemen have killed themselves since the initial invasion of Baghdad. That is in addition to the more than 4,000 who died in battle. This week, families of the soldiers who committed suicide asked President Barack Obama to change the government policy of not forwarding letters of appreciation to mothers and fathers of these servicemen. By week's end, the White House had reversed the policy and agreed that such letters are needed, as well... - Eduardo Paz-Martinez, Editor of The Tribune

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Day With Fox News Is A Day For Funneling Dollars To Saudi Arabia...

By ELIOT ELCOMEDOR
Editor-In-Chief

McALLEN, Texas - A few years back, the nation reeled upon hearing that the Japanese had purchased Rockefeller Center in New York and the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Course in California. More recently, heads turned when Mexican zillionaire Carlos Slim bought a 5% interest in the New York Times last year. It all may seem odd, but this country has a long, long history of welcoming foreign investors.

The latest one is News Corp., owner of Fox News.

Its second-largest holder of voting stock is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king.

Surprised? You should be. Fox News forever carps about the attack by those notorious 19 Saudies on the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, yet it readily takes Saudi money for its right-wing operation. A cynic might be driven to say: "Isn't that a bit unAmerican?"

But then the Saudis are our allies in the war on world terror, so perhaps that is how News Corp. justifies it. The corporation's principal owner is Rupert Murdoch (shown in photo above), an Australian who became a U.S. citizen and later purchased the New York Post and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal. It's something to think about when you know that most neo-conservatives and Teabaggers comprise the larger portion of Fox News viewers.

That dominant cable outlet's ability to generate advertising dollars does nicely by the Saudi prince, a faceless moneychanger benefitting from our crazy, jagged politics. Just know that next time you watch Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity on Fox...that you're helping to funnel dollars to a rag-wearing Arab who likely would wish ill on America at the drop of a quart of oil.

We're not purposely being racist with this; We're just tired of the hypocrisy and the lies that cripple this Great Nation by the day...

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Anonymous said...

The fox news, like any other money making outfit, will take money from peoples coffins. They are the mouth of the Republican party. They probably get money for promoting there talking points.
Thank God for MSNBC who gives everyone an opposite veiw,of the crap spiewed by the foxy people.